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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.17.125.pr

Favorable Treatment of Defendants over Plaintiffs

Passage 9185 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It presents the fundamental legal principle that defendants are to be treated more favorably than plaintiffs in a lawsuit.

[GAIUS libro quinto ad edictum prouinciale. ] §50.17.125.prFauorabiliores rei potius quam actores habentur.
[GAIUS, in the fifth book on the provincial edict.] Defendants are held to be in a more favorable position rather than plaintiffs.

Notes

  1. §50.17.125.prFauorabiliores rei potius quam actores habentur — The passive third-person plural form habentur of the verb habere is used with the comparative predicate adjective fauorabiliores in a double nominative construction meaning "are regarded as" or "are treated as more favorable." The subject is rei (nominative plural of reus, "defendants"), which is contrasted with actores (nominative plural of actor, "plaintiffs") through potius quam.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.17.125.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.17.125.pr

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